This was reported - on the evil Fox News - that King John signed the Magna Carta 800 years ago today - like he thought it was a good idea to bring his oppressed populace freedom and democracy.
It wasn't even mentioned that he was surrounded by angry and determined barons, with their spears, and NO WAY would he have left Runnymede alive, had he not signed it.
I suppose the background doesn't really matter here to Americans, they are simply celebrating the fact and they are not concerned with the detail, How was it reported in Britain? Has our history become more forgiving since I was at school 70 odd years ago?
John has always been considered an unlucky name in our Royal family, and I wonder if he is the reason. I think Edward VII thought he would break with tradition and called one of his children John, and there was something wrong with him. I know we will never have another King John.
Also in the news.............The President of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (who you would expect to be a person of colour, and I think she was expected to be but it is not mandatory) has falsely claimed to be African American, but it has just been revealed that in actual fact she is as white as I am.
Her biological parents are of German and Czech descent, and they are pretty hacked off about her and it was they who spilled the beans. I never imagined it would be possible to be anything other than from the race you are born into, but it seems one just needs to acquire a little suntan and an Afro hairdo, and one can claim to be African American. She has resigned as President of the NAACP but is not enlightening anyone as to why she wants to be black.
The dangerous escaped convicts are still on the run, and although no one is saying so I can't see them being caught now, they're probably in Mexico or Canada. Canada was the nearest border, but I would think the border guards there would have been alerted and on the look out for them.
The NY governor is taking some heat because he went to visit the headquarters and everything came to a halt while he was there, including the manhunt. But I can't really see why. Perhaps that is just a rumour.
It is being alleged that the convicts' stupid accomplice wanted them to kill her husband, and she was meeting them at the manhole from which they escaped and they were going to drive somewhere seven hours away. But the more likely scenario is that they would have got shot of her once they were a safe distance away, and just in time she realised that, or maybe she confided in someone who pointed out the likelihood of that, so she checked herself into a hospital with a 'panic attack'.
She appeared in court today and so far has been charged with helping the convicts escape, but if anyone is shot and killed - if and when they find them - she will be in a lot more trouble. It is also being widely rumoured that the convicts must have had other accomplices, it was so well planned and executed, it can't have all been down to her.
The weather here has been cooler, in the 70s, and we have had some heavy rain. I tried to dodge the rain but still got caught in it, and took a couple of lap size afghans to the Senior Centre. When I got home I realised I hadn't photographed them, and one of them in a black and gold yarn I thought was rather pretty.
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